Your Diet Guide

I am so fascinated by the dietary habits of the children in Japan. This is what we’ve learned from our exchange students staying with us:

• Japanese children do not eat sweet things for breakfast (like sweet cereals)  Typical breakfast is rice and miso soup, or a rice ball with tuna in the middle.
• Japanese mothers get very angry at the children if they are caught snacking on sweet things such as cookies or candy.
• Japanese children have to clean their plates!  No food left on their plate or their mothers will be mad.
• Japanese families have dessert almost every night.  When I asked what the dessert was… they responded with, “Fruit.”
• Many food products in America are too sweet for our Japanese friends.
• Bottom line.. they eat m

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This week Sambazon Launched Warrior Up in San Diego, CA. It’s campaign that celebrates warriors of change – people like Rob Machado, Bob Burnquist, Seane Corn, and many others. Here’s some photos of the launch party. Thank Full Article…

Twenty-three million Americans live in food deserts — impoverished rural and urban areas where no grocery stores operate. Mark Lilly, a former restaurant manager, found that the solution to the problem of food deserts may lie in an old school bus.

Residents of food deserts — 6.5 million of whom are children — have neither physical nor financial access to fresh food. Their meals come from fast food restaurants and convenience stores. In a live chat with AOL Health about her “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity, Michelle Obama said she hoped to eliminate food deserts within seven years.

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Maybe your kids are screaming for fast food. Or your partner is dying to hit the local rib joint. Or your company is holding its employee appreciation lunch at Fat Joe’s House of Lard. Regardless, you’re trying to watch your weight. So what do you do when the waitress slides a greasy menu into your hands?Easy. Just order the salad. And if your family and friends tease you for ordering the “wimpy” food? Well, that’s the price you pay for cutting calories, right?Just one problem: All the discipline, self-deprivation, and scorn you suffer at the hands of your peers might be for naught. Because at many restaurants, the salad is just about the unhealthiest thing on the menu.What? Really? Come on! Salads ar

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